BT ANNOUNCES BUSY 2006

Inks tour deal, composes for two films, continues work on next two albums

Launches Sonik Architects with two software applications due this year

(Miami, FL) Multi-hyphenate performer-producer-composer BT kicks off 2006 with a variety of projects that have him touring, scoring a major motion picture and completing work on two new albums. 

 

BT has inked a deal to join Camel Cigarettes’ promotional club tour for dates throughout 2006 across the United States and Latin America.  The first leg of the tour is set, with dates in March and April in California, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, Georgia and Missouri.  Dates for nine other states will soon be finalized, and Mexico and other Central American countries will follow.  The promotional concerts are usually free to the public.

 

Before embarking on the whirlwind tour, BT wrapped up the score to the feature film “Catch and Release” for Columbia Pictures and director Susannah Grant.  Starring Jennifer Garner, Tim Olyphant, Juliette Lewis and Kevin Smith, the film tells the story of a woman facing the sudden death of her husband and the secrets he kept from her.  The film will be released in early 2007.  BT has also begun work on the score to the independent feature “Surveillance,” a film shot entirely on surveillance cameras. BT has innovatively recorded ambient ‘surveillance’ style sounds such as electric lights humming, vending machines, cameras’ servo-motors moving, to incorporate into the unique and cohesive score.

 

In addition to his touring and film endeavors, BT continues to work on two albums.  The upcoming “This Binary Universe,” his 5.1 surround sound audio-visual brainchild, has been described as “fine art that works on many levels, mind-bendingly deep but a pleasure” by Keyboard Magazine, which went on to say that “In a hundred years, it could well be studied as the first major electronic work of the new millennium.”  BT is also beginning sessions on a new artist album, the first of which features Police founder and drummer Stewart Copeland.  “It’s got beautiful jangly guitars all over it,” says BT of the newest project, “I’ve always wanted to take those elements and put them in a context that makes sense on a dance floor.”

 

As his music is so technologically next-level, BT needed to create his own solutions to

support it.  His software company, Sonik Architects, will launch two applications in

 

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2006, both prototyped by BT himself in cSound and Supercollider, two command line based music scripting languages.  Called Break Tweaker and Stutter Edit, they will be commercially available later this year.

 

Born Brian Transeau, BT grew up outside Washington DC, where he learned to master

the works of composers such as Chopin and Bach by age six.  His musical direction

began to form when he heard electronic music as an adolescent.  “This is what my heroes Debussy, Stravinsky and the like were looking for.  Technology based music is the only idiom that packs such infinite sonic possibilities,” he says.  BT’s mix of epic and classically inspired journeys and beats quickly became a genre, trance, and became one of the most popular and dominant sounds heard in clubs from London to Tokyo and New York.  BT’s talent and persistence had finally paid off and he later released his epic albums “IMA,” “ESCM” and the wildly diverse “Movement in Still Life,” featuring the hit single “Never Gonna Come Back Down.”  “Emotional Technology” spawned his biggest single, “Somnambulist (Simply Being Loved),” on which he also sang.

 

Publicity: Costa Communications

Ray Costa

Rex Polkinghorne

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Management: 3 Artist Management [3AM]

Richard Bishop

Jon Clayden

Tel: 818-380-0303

Email: jon@threeam.net

 

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